Ed Gein the Man Who Inspired Many Popular Horror Films

The farm of horrors

One of the horror films that has scared me the most was Psycho. Norman Bates is a genuinely horrific character. So when I discovered he was based on a real-life criminal, I researched him.

Ed Gein was born Edward Theodore Gein on 27th August 1906 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Nicknamed by the media, The Butcher of Plainfield, he was considered a loner. However…